“SBS 7†is an update to our traditional offering with a refresh of the components inside, designed specifically to provide small businesses with a complete IT solution for their business needs. It’s perfect for small businesses who already have a server or prefer to use email and collaboration tools hosted directly on premise.
IIS Smooth Streaming Client 1.1 RTW
The IIS Smooth Streaming Client 1.1 enables you to build rich IIS Smooth Streaming experiences for both on-demand and live IIS Smooth Streaming for Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 applications
Link – http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=18108280-af54-4248-819f-361723db068e
More Hotmail updates on the way
We’ve kept ourselves busy this summer. A few months ago, we released a re-invented Windows Live Hotmail designed around what people said they wanted—a more efficient service to help them manage clutter with features like Sweep and one-click filters, save time with ActiveViews, share hundreds of large photos in a single email, and be more productive with Office by viewing and editing documents right from Hotmail
Free security software for small businesses
Security is foundational to everything we do at Microsoft –small business owners tell me they want technology that not only improves productivity but equally important they want reassurance that their work is safeguarded.
ANNOUNCING THE AVAILABILITY OF WINDOWS SBS 7 PREVIEW:
Microsoft is releasing to interested testers a preview test version of the next version of its Small Business Server, known as “SBS 7,†on September 21.
SBS 7 is one of three new, low-end server offerings in the Microsoft delivery pipeline. The other two are the “Vail†Windows Home Server product (which is in final test phases), and the “Aurora†hybrid cloud/on-premises small-business server, which went to testers in August. Microsoft officials originally planned to deliver the SBS 7 preview in August, but said recently it would be delayed until September.
Microsoft finalizes its latest supercomputing operating system release
Microsoft has announced immediate availability of Windows High Performance Computing (HPC) Server 2008 R2, its top-of-the line Windows Server operating system, as of September 20.
Microsoft already is working on an update to the just-released HPC 2008 R2 platform that will “allow customers to provision and manage HPC nodes in Windows Azure from within on-premises server clusters,†and is planning to demonstrate this capability at the High Performance Computing Financial Markets Conference in New York today.
Microsoft XNA Game Studio 4.0
XNA Game Studio 4.0 is a programming environment that allows you to use Visual Studio 2010 to create games for Windows Phone, the Xbox 360 console, and Windows-based computers. XNA Game Studio 4.0 includes the XNA Framework 4.0, which is a set of managed libraries designed for game development based on Microsoft .NET Framework 4.
Download – http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=9ac86eca-206f-4274-97f2-ef6c8b1f478f
Windows Phone Developer Tools RTW
The Windows Phone Developer Tools includes the following
- Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone
- Windows Phone Emulator Resources
- Silverlight 4 Tools For Visual Studio
- XNA Game Studio 4.0
- Microsoft Expression Blend for Windows Phone
Download – http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=04704acf-a63a-4f97-952c-8b51b34b00ce
Windows Phone 7 Training Kit for Developers – RTM Refresh
This Windows Phone 7 Training Kit for developers will give you a jumpstart into the new Windows Phone world by providing you with a step-by-step explanation of the tools to use and some key concepts for programming Windows Phones.
Link – http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=ca23285f-bab8-47fa-b364-11553e076a9a
Download Internet Explorer 9 Beta – Microsoft
Internet Explorer 9 Beta is available in many languages. You can download Internet Explorer 9 Beta in the language that matches your version of Windows or choose the English version, which works with all versions of Windows Vista and Windows 7. For additional information, see How do I install or uninstall Internet Explorer 9?
Link – http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/internet-explorer/download/ie-9/worldwide
Microsoft Outlook Social Connector 32-bit
Stay up-to-the-minute with the people in your networks by accessing everything from e-mail threads to status updates in one single, centralized view.
Link – http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=b638cc14-11e5-448a-b5a6-4f553ce81b94
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 – PowerPivot for Microsoft Excel 2010 – RTM
Microsoft® PowerPivot for Microsoft® Excel 2010 provides ground-breaking technology, such as fast manipulation of large data sets (often millions of rows), streamlined integration of data, and the ability to effortlessly share your analysis through Microsoft® SharePoint 2010.
Link – http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=e081c894-e4ab-42df-8c87-4b99c1f3c49b
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 – PowerPivot for Microsoft Excel 2010 – RTM
Microsoft® PowerPivot for Microsoft® Excel 2010 provides ground-breaking technology, such as fast manipulation of large data sets (often millions of rows), streamlined integration of data, and the ability to effortlessly share your analysis through Microsoft® SharePoint 2010.
Link – http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=e081c894-e4ab-42df-8c87-4b99c1f3c49b
Office for Mac 2011 hits RTM
Houston, we have RTM! It’s a big Friday in MacBU as we are celebrating the “Release to Manufacturing†of Office for Mac 2011. This means we’ve signed off on final testing and the product is officially getting sent on its way to production and to customers. We’ll be cranking the Microsoft ship siren and celebrating in all of our team locations (Redmond, Microsoft Silicon Valley, Beijing, Dublin and Tokyo), raising a glass to Office 2011!
Link – http://blog.officeformac.com/office-for-mac-2011-hits-rtm/
P2V Migration for Software Assurance Explained
By now the announcements have gone out for the Beta, been blogged about and seen in other social networking channels, so I thought I would do something a bit more in depth on this for the Springboard Blog.
A little (recent) history…
In Fall of 2009 there was a perfect storm of tools and automation to enable something I have wanted to do for some time, automate local physical-to-virtual migration of a Windows client machine and redeliver and integrate that old environment within a new Windows build using full automation.
